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Article #8828Re: Which DOS should I use?
From: Stephen M. Smith
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1991 21:11
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1991 21:11
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ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
>>the ONLY reason to have 4.x is drive partitioning. It takes too much memory
>>and really adds very little to DOS 3.3. If you can get Compaq DOS 3.31, it
>>has all the joys of DOS 3.3 plus large partitions. 4dos won't help, it is
>
>Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus also has the above features,
>plus a lot of nonstandard Zenith stuff, eg. a
>Norton-like file editor/undeleter called GDI,
^^^
>a low-level formatter called PREP, FDISK renamed
>to PART, etc. I don't know how well it would
>work on a non-Zenith.
I believe it's called GDU. It works great on a non-Zenith: In a
pinch last summer I used GDU on a NEC machine to find and eradicate
a virus (stoned). Strangely enough, when I try to use it with
an earlier version of DOS, it comes back "WRONG DOS VERSION!" and
aborts, but when I tried to use it on my new computer just out of
curiosity, if worked fine--even though I have a LATER version of
DOS (4.01 instead of 3.3).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!news From: smsmith@hpuxa.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) Subject: Re: Which DOS should I use? Message-ID: <1991Apr1.211103.7864@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hpuxa.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University References: <5707@tellab5.tellabs.com> <3632@polari.UUCP> <1991Apr1.163245.17757@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Distribution: na Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 21:11:03 GMT Lines: 26